When investigating shapes this week Primary 2C became curious about where the vertices meet. After some investigating we discovered that squares and rectangles look the same at the corners. We learned that these shapes have right angles. Looking around our classroom we found lots of right angles!
We even played a fun game where we had to compete against each other to turn the correct way under the teachers direction using the language right, left and right angle. We are having a semi final and final next week in our class. We are wondering where else we might use angles?

This week inspired by Hallowe’en and our book room on the Broom, we decided to create some witches potions.

First we had to decide what we wanted our potion to do, there were lots of varying requests. Next we went out sourcing some ingredients for our potions. Would you believe that in our playground we found eyes of dragons, ears of foxes and even frog poo!

When it was time to make the potions we carefully shared out ingredients, considering what magic each element would add to our spell and lastly we wrote about our experiences in our writing jotter.

Thank you to Miss Daily and Jenna for helping us with our potions this week. I hope everyone survived and nobody was put under the ‘Buy me a Fluffy Puppy’ potion!

In P.E. we are focusing on developing our fitness. We discussed how different lifestyle choices we make can help us as we grow older. The children shared excellent examples of everyday choices such as regular exercise and balanced diets. We will continue to learn to understand how to promote healthy choices.

Take a look at P2C taking part in some simple fitness circuits. They enjoyed creating the simple exercises and identifying how many they already do as part of their outdoor play.

Primary 2 had a great day out to the science centre.

Some of our favourite things included; exploring the activities, trying the hamster wheel, building with wonky blocks, catapulting the ball, walking in the funny room and looking at the stars in the planetarium.

Thank you to our parent helpers and Mrs Dougall for organising the trip.

Last week was Maths Week Scotland. We read the book ‘The Doorbell Rang.’ It was all about sharing equally.

We took part in some activities that helped us to learn how to share out objects and numbers in equal amounts.

We liked sharing the playdough out and playing with it.

We liked making the playdough in partners (even if it didn’t always work!)

We liked using the games on the board to help share things out.

This week we looked at measure in maths and numeracy. We all learned how to use a ruler to measure things accurately. We welcomed Mrs McGuigan and Mrs McAra into the classroom to share our learning.

It was lovely to see some of the children bring in books and pictures inspired by our topic. Some children even told us about what they done over the weekend to help keep our oceans clean! Well done P2C!

Have a lovely weekend!

In maths we were looking at measure. We used our feet to measure different things around the classroom. We made estimates which we learned is like an educated guess! Once we checked our answers they were all different because our feet are different sizes!

We were learning about different things you find in the ocean. We were sad to find out there is lots of rubbish in the ocean, including shoes, plastic bottles and old trucks! We learned that all around the UK this week there are ocean clean ups taking place. Maybe the next time we go to a beach we can help our grown ups clean up.

When the sun came out on Wednesday we decided to take our maths outside and created hopscotch and number games to play in the sunshine!

On Thursday we also learned about submarines that go in the ocean. Ivy’s mum visited us and helped us make a periscope just like the ones they use on submarines. It was great fun spying on each other from under the tables!

Have a great weekend!

This week we created maths games to play.

Each group were given different objects to create their game from.

Our games needed to focus on the number 10. We could have number bonds to 10 or counting in 10s.

Once we made our own games, we moved around to play each others.

Some of us stayed and taught the other people how to play our game.

Today we also say goodbye to Miss Anderson. She has been with us for four weeks and we have enjoyed working with her. Good luck Miss Anderson.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

This week we have been exploring all the different sea animals in the ocean. We were measuring them using non-conventional units of measure including our hands! Next time we may even use our feet!

We created art work using white crayons and water paint. When we return next week we should be able to hang them up.

In our areas we discussed how we can make them Under the Sea themed. We had a lot of great ideas and Mrs Norman will help us find the materials to create them.

In our writing we looked at the season of Autumn. We wrote fantastic descriptions using our senses.

Have a wonderful sunny weekend!

What another fantastic week in Primary 2C. It was lovely to see so many of our grown ups on Wednesday night at Meet the Teacher. As we continue to settle into Primary 2 we have spent more time exploring the areas within the class. This week we looked at how we can use our learning environment to help support our numeracy skills. Your young people may start asking you about how you use numeracy in your daily life.

Have a great weekend.

Welcome to our first blog of the year.

It has been lovely to get to know all the children in the class, I can tell this is going to be a fantastic year.

Here’s what the children think so far –

• We really like P.E.
• All our friends are kind.
• The classroom looks good.
• All our friends in our class have been showing the school values.
• We are taking care of our classroom.
• We like keeping our classroom tidy and showing respect.
• Mrs McGuigan and Mrs Jamieson have commented on how fabulous our line is when we walk around the school.
• We read Zog this week and have enjoyed lots of different activities.

Happy weekend!